JESÚS ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ PERSONAL DATA Date of Birth: 10/15/1962 Address: Departamento de Filología, Universidad de Cantabria, Av. Los Castros s/n, Santander, Cantabria (SPAIN) E-mail: gonzalezja@unican.es Personal website: http://personales.unican.es/gonzalezja/ Research group: https://estudiostransnacionalesuc.blogspot.com Tel. 34-942201256, 34-647391119 Marital status: married (3 children) Current position: Academic Director for International Relations, University of Cantabria EDUCATION 2000: Ph. D. Degree in English, University of Salamanca, Spain. 1997: M.A. in Film Studies, University of Valladolid, Spain. 1987: M.A. in Spanish, the Pennsylvania State University, USA. GPA 4.00 /4.00. 1985: B.A. in English
with minors in Spanish and in Teaching Methodology
(Certificado de Aptitud
Pedagógica). University of Salamanca, Spain. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011- present: Associate Professor (“Profesor Titular”), University of Cantabria, Spain 2002-2010: Assistant Professor (“Profesor Asociado”, “Profesor Ayudante Doctor”), University of Cantabria 2000-2002: Assistant Professor in the Ph. D. program, University of Cantabria, Spain. 1988-2010: English Teacher at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas (a Government network of Foreign Language Schools for adults) in Santander, Spain. 1987-1988: English Teacher at the Fermín Caballero High School in Madrid, Spain. 1986-1987: Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish, the Pennsylvania State University. Instructor in the Summer Pedagogical Institute for Teachers, summer 87. 1985: Spanish Language Assistant at four High Schools in Northern Ireland, on the official scheme administered by the United Kingdom Education Department. RESEARCH AND TEACHING STAYS 2013: Teaching Mobility Erasmus Program, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Italy) 2014: Teaching Mobility Erasmus Program, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania (Italy) 2009 (Summer): Visiting Scholar, UCLA, USA 2006: Study Visit on “The CLIL Perspective”, Socrates Program of the European Union, Karoli Gaspar University (Budapest, Hungary) 2006: European Centre for Modern Languages, Council of Europe, Graz (Austria) “Initiatives for plurilingualism: cooperation between teacher associations and the ECML” 2005 (Summer): Visiting Fellow, Yale University, USA. 2002: European Centre for Modern Languages, Council of Europe, Graz (Austria) “Ongoing assessment in the lower secondary classroom—Evolving ICT-based materials on a can-do basis suitable for portfolio presentation”